"Russian state?" The Yehenala clan hurriedly denied it: "I have no contact with them, this time I came to contact a leader of the rebel army, who has a common enmity with Liu Jiehu, named Ge Mengjin"——

The queen's face was suspicious: "Ge Mengjin? Han? ”

"Although he is a Han Chinese, he is loyal to my Qing Dynasty, and he is only forced by the situation to temporarily succumb to the Russian army, but he has 30,000 elite people, countless foreign guns and artillery, and he has won the trust of the Russians, and he is very powerful."

The queen didn't care so much: "What about him Jae-chun?" ”

Although she is not Jae-chun's biological mother, the queen's feelings for this child even exceed that of his biological mother.

"He said that he was willing to contact the Russians, borrow the strength of the Russians outside the border to establish a country, support Jae-chun as king, and rebuild Manchuria."

"Outside the border is enough to establish a country, I'm afraid it's this Russian, it's like the story of the early years of the country."

What is the story of the early years of the dynasty, of course, the Manchu Qing took the opportunity to rescue the Ming Dynasty, and after defeating Li Zicheng, they went out of the customs in a big way and swept away several small regimes in the Southern Ming Dynasty, which can be called a model of strategic planning.

Yehenala immediately said: "The queen can rest assured, after all, the Russian Yi people are Fanbang, and they have come from afar, if they want to base themselves on foreign affairs, they have to be supported by Manchuria. ”

The queen was still a little hesitant, although she had suffered some hardships, but the experience in life was too little and too little, she really believed this.

"If this Ge Mengjin is really usable, we can't use their power."

Manila is a typical cosmopolitan city, especially after the Rainbow Army occupied here, and the cosmopolitan color here has become even more international.

Merchants come from a variety of countries, Americans, British, Swedes, French, Dutch may find the goods they need, especially the monopoly of tobacco and other monopoly goods is naturally interrupted by the presence of the Rainbow Army, and merchants from all over the world are full of praise for the friendliness of Manila. This was not the case before, and the Spanish colonial government was extremely unfriendly to foreigners, and they did not even allow foreign nationals to be stationed in Manila. Instead, they had to buy all the supplies they needed through some intermediaries, and even a few years ago, the colonial government had to expel all foreign trading houses that entered the Philippines directly in order to maintain the absolute superiority of the Spaniards.

Now it's good. The prosperity of the southern part of the country in the past has been replicated in the Philippines and Manila, and even if the Spaniards send a large army to reinforce the Philippines, this fact cannot be changed.

The Spaniards had promised the merchants of the nations that even if they returned to Manila, it would not change the reality of Manila's opening, but the foreign merchants believed in the promise of the new owner of Manila.

From Wenzhou and Ningbo to the coastal ports of China, it has been confirmed that the Hongjun is a very faithful regime. Not only did they agree to maintain the traditional five-port trade, but they were even willing to open some new ports, and even opened ports along the Yangtze River.

The growth rate of foreign trade in the Yangtze River basin has made these Manila merchants blush, knowing that the cotton trade alone has caused a large increase in the price of cotton huā all over the world.

From Egypt to Hamburg, there are now merchants looking for cotton huā in checkbooks everywhere, and the price of cotton huā is skyrocketing all over the world. Many factories have had to stop production due to the shortage of cotton huā, but the Chinese still have more cotton cloth and cotton huā.

With the expansion of the Rainbow Army, not only soldiers, officials and some of the upper class switched to British cotton. Now there is a new beneficiary class, numbering at least hundreds of thousands or even millions, who like to emulate everything from successful people, and who can afford to wear cotton clothes, and who do not know how many tons of cotton they use up every year. …,

In Manila, trade is booming, but it has not yet reached such a stage, and everyone is looking forward to this new opportunity from Manila's new owners.

Therefore, foreign businessmen did not resist the actions of the Hongjun, and even businessmen from some Catholic countries knew that the Hongjun had violated the interests of the Catholic Church on the island. Instead of doing so, they sold military supplies to the occupying forces, and even acted as a spy for the Rainbow Army against the Catholic guerrillas.

The Rainbow Army also reciprocated by providing as much convenience as possible for foreign businessmen, but the situation in Manila today is different from that of the past.

Although the pilots brought foreign merchant ships into the port of Manila, they did not allow any foreign merchant ships to sail. Neither a sailboat nor a steamship can leave the port.

Some businessmen began to protest to the authorities of the occupation forces, even going beyond the mid-ranking officers and directly to their superiors, but the results were disappointing.

More than 2,000 Spaniards had attacked the island of Mindoro south of Luzon, and Governor Lin Mengchu had ordered a large force to reinforce Mindoro, most likely requisitioning some merchant ships.

Many of the ships were loaded with goods, so many merchants immediately protested, and they signed formal agreements with the British merchants in Hong Kong, Malacca, and Bombay, and if they were requisitioned now, not only would they not be able to deliver the goods on time, but who knew what would go wrong with these requisitioned merchant ships, and maybe a boatload of tobacco would fall into the hands of the GIs, and in the end they would not see a single tobacco leaf.

But the merchants' protests had no effect, Lin Mengchu still requisitioned most of the ships very strongly, including large sailboats, and several steam paddle steamers, and the whole of Manila knew his determination, he Lin Mengchu would never give up any of his comrades on the southern island of Mindoro, he would save them all.

The Mobile Brigades of the Marine Corps, which were serving as firefighters in Manila and Luzon, were already in operation, and they soon came into the spotlight on several steamboats, and although they also had some steamboats and sailboats as a means of maneuvering, they had to be more flexible in order to transport the entire infantry regiment to Mindoro in the south.

The foreign businessmen in Manila even knew that this time Lin Mengchu had indeed made the greatest determination, and he was going to use the strength of the entire division to reinforce Medoro, and he reaffirmed his principle that he would never give up a comrade-in-arms.

After all, the Spaniards had been operating in the Philippines for 300 years, and although they had been expelled from Manila and even the whole of Luzon, there were a large number of Catholic guerrillas on the island, all of whom were faithful Catholics, led by both foreign missionaries and Filipino missionaries who were dissatisfied with the Rainbow Army, so the news quickly reached Hergrid.

"Very good!" Vice Admiral Hercule, commander of the Spanish steam fleet, proudly announced: "We will send thousands of pagan reinforcements to the sea to feed the fish!" ”

He was certainly proud of the fact that his fleet consisted of six steam warships, all six of which were the most precious treasures of the Spanish Navy, and the longest warships were only five years old, and they were not ordinary merchant ships of the Xianghong Army, but real steam warships ordered from England and France.

They were born to win, so they didn't have a very heavy and deadly paddle wheel, and the firepower on it was also very reasonable, so it can be said that such a steam warship was enough to clean up several armed steam merchant ships of the Rainbow Army.

"Fill up the rudder, we must block the infidel reinforcement fleet, it will be a huge group of ships, we must not let them go!"

It was only in the absence of radio communication that the blockade of Manila would be a difficult mission, and they did not dare to enter the waters off the coast of Manila, because the batteries in Manila were built by the Spanish, and they knew the power of those artillery, and if they were too close to Manila, they would scare away the reinforcements of the Rainbow Army. …,

But too far from Manila, his fleet was unable to complete the port of Manila, and he had to preserve as much coal as possible on the ship, which made him nostalgic for their time on the sail battleship.

A small boat sailed out again, and the real good news came: "The infidel fleet is ready to set sail at thirteen o'clock today!" ”

"Long live the Queen!"

Herculi breathed a sigh of relief, it was today, and he would definitely not let any enemy ship have a chance to escape: "The whole ship is ready, check the guns, check the engines, and prepare for battle!" ”

Although the opponent was just some armed merchant ships, Herculi would not let up at all, and he felt that he should have a chance to win.

With the sea winds blazing and the battle flag flying, Hercule's six steam ships pushed the efficiency of the steam engines to the limit, and headed in search formation near Manila, where they soon found their targets in the telescope: "Spot the enemy fleet, a total of four steam paddle steamers, ready to open fire!" ”

It was only that there had to be a considerable distance from the time of discovery to the time of entering the firing range, and the Spanish warships did not hesitate to save coal and began to pursue at maximum speed, and they quickly caught up, and seeing that the target was about to enter the firing range, they found something incredible on the flag.

"British ships? White flag? ”

The Spaniards shuddered a little at the thought of the tragedy of the Armada, they had an innate fear and respect for the British, and Hercules felt that something was wrong: "What's the matter?" ”

On the opposite side, not only did the British flag and white flag hang out, but even the flag was played, asking the Spaniards to let them go, and some Spanish crew members whispered: "Do you want to let go?" Is this really the transport fleet of the Chinese people? ”

Hercule, the commander of the fleet, immediately gave an order: "No firing, we will board the ship for inspection...... Let's hope we're on the right track. ”

Just over an hour later, Hercules found himself in big trouble, the four steamers were all real British freighters, and even the crew members were British, and there was not a single Chinese soldier on board, and there was not even a single contraband.

In fact, there was quite a bit of contraband, and there was no trade ship on this plane that didn't have it, but there wasn't anything the Spaniards wanted.

Where did the transport fleet of the Chinese go? (To be continued.)